Improvement in photographic albums



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

RICHARD VAN VELTHOVEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM W. HARDING IMPROVEMENT IN PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,323, dated October 30, 1866.

To all whom' it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD VAN VELTHo VEN, of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Photographic Albums; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ot' the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The drawings represent two disconnected leaves ot a photographie album, showing the slotted strips of parchment or other material by means of which the leaves are bound t0- gether.

This is an improvement on the invention for which Letters Patent were granted to J. H. Hazzard and myself on the 17th October, 1865, on reference to the specification and dra-wings of which patent it will be found that certain slots or openings, a, in the strips therein represented are formed by having pieces the size of the slots cut com pletely out of the Strip.

My present improvement consists in providing these strips with slots which are formed by being eut only on three sides, forming a ilap, which, in the binding ot' the leaves together, is turned under and secured to the edge ofthe under side (i. e., the side opposite to that on which the strip is glued) of the album-leaves, as hereinafter described.

In the drawings, A and B represent two i album-leaves, each of which is provided with its strip,O, otparchme'nt or other material, as described in the specilication of the abovementioned Letters- Patent. a represents the slots, whicll are eut on'three sides, x y z,t'orm ing the liaps l), which are turned down over the edges ofthe album-leaves and glued to the leaves, as shown, thereby covering up the raw edges ot' the cards or pasteboards which form the'leaves so far'as the exposure ot' these edges would be occasioned by the slots.

The improvement adds strength and nish t0 the album.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Forming' one or more flaps, b,in the strips O, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as shown and described.

RD. VAN VELTHOVEN.

Witnesses:

GEO. BUGKLEY, J. E. SHAW. A 9b-mvv, 

